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COMBINED WHIP AND ROBE LOOK AND LINE HOLDER.

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HUDSON MARTIN AND JOEL RUSSEL PALMER, OF ROANOKE, MISSOURI.

COMBINED WHIP AND ROBE LOCK AND LINE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,633, dated April 3, 1888.

Application filed December 8, 1887. Serial No. 257,349. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, Henson MARTIN and J OEL Rnssnr. PALMER, citizens of the United States, residing at Roanoke, in the county of Howard and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buggy-Whip Sockets, of which the following is a description.

Our invention relates to certain new and use ful improvements in a combined whip-socket, rein-holder, and robe-lock; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement; of the parts thereof, which will be more fully hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The object of our invention is to provide a simple and effective combined attachment for vehicles, the parts of which are strong and durable, easily handled, and readily understood and operated, and comparatively inexpensive in manufacture. We attain this object by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like letters of reference indicate similar parts in the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improved form of combined whip-socket, reinholder, and robelock, shown attached to a dasher-board. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section thereof. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line :0 a: of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the operating-key for the whip-socket.

A indicates the socket proper, which is formed with a series of apertures, a, of any suitable configuration, for the purposes which will he obviously apparent. The upper part of the socket has a leather ring, a, inserted therein to prevent the whip-butt from inj uring the head of the socket. To one side of the upper part of the socket a lug, A, is integrally formed, which is provided with a screw-threaded aperture adapted to be engaged by a screw, S, which is secured at its inner end to a semi circular spring-plate,which has one of its ends reduced, as at b. Adjacent to the reduced end I) of the said semicircular plate B an aperture, a is formed in the socket, through which the upper end of a chain, C, is secured by the engagement of said reduced end I) with one of the links, as shown in Fig. 1. The said chain then passes downward and is secured to the robe,and thence upward again and permanently attached to a lug, a integrally formed with the lower side of the socket A.

A key, D, is used to operate the screw S and force the semicircular spring-plate inward into the central part of the socket A, or to withdraw the same, as will be readily understood. By forcing the said plate inward the reduced end thereof passes over the aperture a in the upper part of the socket, as shown in Fig. 1, and for the purposes hereinbefor'e set forth. When said semicircularplate is forced inward, it also has a tendency to lock the whip in the socket by hearing against the butt thereof.

Secured to the upperside of the socket is a corrugated sector-plate'E, and above said sector-plate a pawl, F, is pivotally mounted in connection with the socket, and is formed with a corrugated head adjacent to and surrounding its pivotal point. The operating or extended handle of the said pawl is raised and turned back against the dash-board when the reins are placed over the sector-plate E, and the said pawl then turned down, as shown in Fig. 1, and the reins will be securely held against displacement.

The utility and adaptability of our improved device being obviously apparent,it is unnecessary to further enlarge upon the same herein. We claim 1. The device herein set forth, comprising awhip-socket having a leather ring in the upper end thereof, the semicircular plate adapted to be propelled inward into the socket and having a reduced end, as set forth, a chain, 0, permanently secured at one end to the socket and adapted to be thrown around the robe to lock the same, and then secured at its upper end to the reduced end of the semicircular plate, and the rein-holder on the side of the socket, constructed substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the socket constructed as set forth, of the corrugated sectorplate E, and the pawl F, having a corrugated head, as set forth, the said parts acting conjunctively to lock the reins in connection with the socket, as set forth.

3. The combination,with the whip-socket, of the semicircular plate B, actuated by a screw turned by a key, which has a reduced end, b, the chain F, adapted to be locked by the reduced end of the semicircular plate at its upadapted to be operated by a key to project the 10 per end and encircle the robe and be secured said plate 13 into or Withdraw it from the into a lug integrally formed with the lower part ternal part of the said socket, substantially as l of the socket, substantially as described. described.

4. The combination, with the whipsocket HUDSON MARTIN. proper, of the leather ring a, mounted in the JOEL RUSSEL PALMER. inner upper end thereof, and a semicircular Witnesses: spring-plate, B, mounted below said ring a J. S. BEITER,

and attached to the inner end of a screw, S, W. H. BAGLEY. 

